Just when I get really tired with Drupal something happens that kindda pull me back in. It happened to me again yesterday. I have spend a lifetime building a customer website, and the final result is – from a technical stand point – not the most beautiful piece of work I have ever done, so I was already afraid when the client called me. Apparently the 7000 comments on the site was not a sign of the sites popularity. Just spam.
After some digging I found Mollom, which is a somewhat commercial module for Drupal and installed it. After spending about 10 seconds on creating a Mollom account (thanks for supporting openid so well), 30 seconds to installed the module and about a minutes to setup the module, the site was protected against spam. Now, 24 hours after setting it up, no spam comments have made it’s way through.
When complex modules that integrate with an entire system that deep just work out of the box you have to give it credit. It’s simply fantastic.
